Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "" video.

  1. If people whose ancestors owned slaves want to pay reparations out of their own pocket, I won't stop them. None of my ancestors as far back as I can trace my lineage on both sides of the family ever owned one single slave, so I will pay not one single penny for reparations. I can name four direct ancestors who fought and died in the US Civil War (1861-65) on the Union side, dying to end the evil of slavery in our country. Whatever my family owed to black folks, we paid in blood a long time ago. Imagine what black people could do if they studied hard in school, worked hard, and stopped seeing themselves as eternal victims. Eternal victimhood makes you a cripple, unable to account for your life and take charge of your destiny.
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  2. It's stoking the fires of racial division dangerously high. This won't end well.
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  3. I'm told by reparations advocates in the States that they would consider $5 million merely a down payment--they want a lifetime guaranteed income and periodic lump sums. As one told me: "$100 million wouldn't be enough. If white people gave me $1 billion, I'd say 'Where's the rest of it?'" I'm sure their demands are realistic and won't agitate the white majority in the slightest.
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  4. The Africans don't want them.
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  5. What if Simon pays you $5 million in reparations? Would that heal your significant injury?
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  6. It's a fantasy. $5 million for each black resident of San Francisco would be the equivalent of 75 years of the city's total operating budget. These people are mad.
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